Best Friends

Tonight we watched as our niece married her best friend. It was a time for me to reflect on how very blessed I truly am. It was a fun time, which is something new for me. When I was drinking I would have been very uncomfortable up until the point when the alcohol began to flow. Instead, today I got the opportunity to sit back and enjoy all the beautiful things going on around me. The ceremony was great. They did something called a sand ceremony which I had never seen before. It was beautiful. It went like this:

"BRIDE and GROOM you have just sealed your bond by the giving and receiving of rings and this covenant is a marital pledge between two people who agree that they will commit themselves to one another throughout their lives. The most beautiful example of this partnership is the marriage union. Today, this relationship is symbolized through the pouring of these two individual containers of sand. One, representing you, BRIDE and all that you were, all that you are, and all that you will ever be, and the other representing you, GROOM, and all that you were and all that you are, and all that you will ever be. As these two containers of sand are poured into the third container, the individual containers of sand will no longer exist, but will be joined together as one. Just as these grains of sand can never be separated, our prayer for you today is that your lives together would take longer than the time it would take to separate the individual grains of sand. "

It really hit home for me. Each grain of sand is an event, feeling, moment in time......put really when you look at the container of sand that is your whole life you see that these events that I dwelt on and let hold me back from life were really nothing.....only small moments of sand in the big container.